hey, On 28/05/2010 Carlos Pasqualini wrote: > the change you make to the license of the Default Skin, as i can > understand, makes so difficult for a company to use roundcube for > commercial purposes. > > The license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ states that > you have lots of attributions but "Not commercial Use". > > I think that roundcube needs to have a "base theme" (GPL, CC-by-sa, > CC-by, etc) from which one can build themes without having legal issues.
i agree with you that CC-by-nc is a bad license for the default skin. For example it's a reason to keep roundcube out of linux/bsd/... distributions. i don't know whether relicensing the default skin is an option. if not, then a new default skin with a more permissive, really free license would be necessary. FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Ubuntu, Debian and Fedora all have roundcube available as package/port, and they would need to drop/substitude the skin in order to update the package/port to latest version. > Suppose a webmaster, adapting a RC Theme to suit the graphical design of > a given bussiness, with the new license that job cannot use the default > skin as a start base; the new skin needs to be written from scratch!. > For every new version of roundcube, the entire skin needs to be > reviewed. > > The other point, i'm even more worried about, is using roundcube as the > webmail solution on a ISP, using the default skin. I'm reading the > entire CC-by-nc license, but if this is a commercial use of the skin... > ¿does it fit into the permissions granted by the Skin's license? > > i would be less worried if the license was CC-by-sa yes, version 3 of CC-by-sa would be good. even better would be a more permissive license. for debians point of view (as an example) see http://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses greetings, jonas --- 8< --- detachments --- 8< --- The following attachments have been detached and are available for viewing. http://detached.gigo.com/rc/CT/kKMDZTUg/signature.asc Only click these links if you trust the sender, as well as this message. --- 8< --- detachments --- 8< ---
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